Some types of magnesium flares can look like WP flares under the right conditions. WP is used as a smoke screen, not to distract missiles. It burns
hot enough, but not intensely enough, like a magnesium flare does.

I agree the video does tell me it is flares. Which then that would make the heat seeking missiles pretty useless.

Just thought I would bring the really scary type of hype to disgrace ATS.

Dun Dun Dun Dunnnn... the MSM.

Yesterday the media was saying maybe Assad was "moving" or "loading" chemicals, today they are "loaded bombs on the runway" for two months and
OH MY GOD this has us so terribly worried! He might do something any minute!

Red line ! Red line! pffft...

Caution Contains Mind Control Techniques!

Place Tongue In Cheek

Were I to read between the lines I would say that the ramp up to invasion is at a fever pitch. This kind of "news report" that shows us no evidence
whatsoever and yet worrisomely warns us about the dire situation. Yesterday it was maybe, today it is fact.

BEIRUT (AP) — As fears grow in the West that Syrian President Bashar Assad will unleash chemical weapons as an act of desperation, NATO moved
forward Thursday with its plan to place Patriot missiles and troops along Syria's border with Turkey to protect against potential attacks.

Germany's Cabinet approved the move on Thursday, and German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters that the overall mission is
expected to include two batteries each from the Netherlands and the United States, plus 400 soldiers and monitoring aircraft.

It's a cluster bomb unit. The RBK-250 with RAB 2.5 submunitions. It's not WP, it's thermite based. The 2.5 has three types of submunitions. One
with just thermite, one with thermite and HE, and one with thermite and a jellied incendiary substance. The puff is the outer casing coming apart,
and the streaks are the submunitions coming out of the casing.

According to The Sunday Times, the
Americans have already purchased
mortars, anti-tank rockets and
shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles for
the purpose.
The weaponry came from the arsenals
amassed by the ousted Libyan dictator
Muammar Gaddafi.

Syria’s chemical stockpiles watched by Israeli Commandos
According to The Sunday Times,
Israeli commandos sent to Syria are
watching that country’s chemical
weapon stockpiles. The paper has
quoted an Israeli source as saying the
Syrians have been hastily relocating
their chemical arsenals. On Thursday, rebel fighters seized a village located within 3 kilometers of Syria’s biggest chemical weapon storage
site.

Well, that should put everyone at ease...(sarcasm)

And the NYT article, which doesn't refer to the US ready to arm them, but about the concerns with the AQ linked groups:

France, the United Kingdom, Israel
and Qatar have prepared yet
another plan for intervention in Syria.
6000 new jihadists, including 4000
from Lebanon, should be poised to
attack the upscale Mezzeh
neighborhood south of Damascus,
home to many embassies and where
several top military and civilian
officials reside. An incident involving
chemical weapons across the country
is set to increase the tension. A
traitorous general would then claim to
have seized power and call to the
West for help, thus providing a
pretext for military intervention
outside the UN mandate.

Syria has accused the United States of
working to falsely accuse the country
of using chemical weapons, Syrian
state-run media said Monday.
"The U.S. administration has
consistently worked over the past year
to launch a campaign of allegations on
the possibility that Syria could use
chemical weapons during the current
crisis," the Foreign Ministry wrote in
letters to U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon, the state-run Syrian Arab
News Agency reported.
"What raises concerns about this news
circulated by the media is our serious
fear that some of the countries
backing terrorism and terrorists might
provide the armed terrorist groups
with chemical weapons and claim that
it was the Syrian government that
used the weapons," SANA quoted the
letters as saying.

Syria 24 English ·
7 minutes ago ·
#NATO - A diplomatic source said on
Monday that the patriot missiles,
which the NATO decided to deploy in
Turkey, will not be deployed along the
borders with Syria directly, but inside
the Turkish territories.
The French News Agency (AFP)
reported the diplomatic source as
saying, "We want the missiles to be
deployed far from the borders to
avoid any misunderstanding with
Russia."
Earlier, Russia warned of the
repercussions of such a decision as
Russian President Vladimir Putin
considered it as "escalating tensions
on the Syrian-Turkish borders."
SANA
M.D

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